Poll: Where Do you prefer to get your news from?

[noname223]

They say traditional journalism gets obliterated by social media.

Can someone recommend good substack journalists?

 

[ForgottenAgain]

I like Ground News since they aggregate lots of news websites and show you what's being reported more on the left, right or centre. I think that's pretty useful today when everything is so political and news stopped being unbiased a long time ago. They have a blind spot section that is pretty useful too.

 

[DarkRange55]

SS user @noname223 posts news stories from a German perspective

 

[yowai]

Usually social media then fact checking it on multiple websites

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Mostly just Twitter but sometimes I see the headlines on Google Chrome when I open a new tab. I used to check Yahoo and Google News all the time.

 

[Pluto]

Pusheen : Comics

pusheen.com

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm ashamed to say- satire. I can't look at many politicians without seeing their Spitting Image (puppet) counterparts.

YouTube tends to make me vaguely aware of the biggest issues going on but, I largely avoid the news. Irresponsible maybe but I truly don't want anything to do with this world.

 

[tera645]

Both traditional and social media as well.

 

[-nobodyknows-]

Someone told me the other day that they get their news from /pol/ which I found hilarious

 

[Sn00t]

Reuters is usually a primary source of information which gets filtered through ideological news agencies like BBC, Fox News, The Guardian etc. best way to get news is to read traditional news cycles and cross check with sources of opposing ideological nature and perhaps sources outside like twitter which can add to discussion or context. A good example for me is when in Amsterdam there were alleged pograms of Jews, I read pro Palestinian sources like Al Jazeera who might fill in additional context. They underscored that these Israelis were saying racist and genocidal protests, also damaging property and assaulting Taxi drivers and that this event was not just an anti-Semitic hate crime. It was instead a reaction to Israeli Nazis in their country doing as they pleased, and getting a form of, revenge on them, as expected. This information was not payed attention to by mainstream news agencies like BBC, and now this is very well known, yet I knew of it almost immediately after the event, and it's because I read diverse news.

 

[darkest]

Memes, mainly because I don't care anymore about news but memes push them into my face lol

 

[Namelesa]

Sanctioned Suicide and people I interact with I guess as I don't look at much social medias (except maybe youtube but that mostly recommends me videos based off my interests) and I would rather stay ignorant of whats happening in the world. I already deal with enough shit on my own, don't need to know about problems from other people that I don't even know.

 

[Winterreise]

It would be unwise to trust sources not governed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , that doesnt include social media.

 

[quietism]

I get my news from Wikipedia. Having been an editor there, I know of lots of ways to find new discussions of sources. The site isn't perfect but overall the single most reliable tertiary source in my experience. Half of my time there is reading the articles, the other half is reading and verifying/comparing cited sources.

 

[Pessimist]

Haaretz (I live in Israel). It's left-wing & anti-war, but doesn't take a radical pro-Palestinian stance like Al Jazeera. I also like Yedioth Ahronoth/Ynet because of its liberal coverage and criticism of Netanyahu, but it's too pro-Israel sometimes & doesn't really challenge the claims of the IDF.

 

[DefyGravity]

These days, I feel like i have to be my own investigative reporter. I look at multiple sources (traditional, biased, social media, etc) and do my best to find common ground and root out the non-factual bias. It's not always easy, but better than simply taking someone else's word - especially when they have their own opinions and agenda.

Critical Thinking has become a lost art.

 

[missedmybus]

I'm subscribed to a far left and a far right magazine from my home country. I read some mainstream media as well. I speak to my neighbours and acquaintances about things.

Usually the "truth" is somewhere in-between all of those.

 

[nuclearnebula]

Either SAN or X or Dailymail

 

[nogods4me]

I don't follow current events. It's not just that I don't care about this world anymore but also because there are few to zero objective news organs. Unz puts together a lot of bold commentators much less subject to group think, manipulation or collaborationist ass-licking than most everywhere else in one place so sometimes I venture to his site, other times I look for independent people outside of the anglosphere and it's usually better. I've looked at far left and far right just to see what they're saying. I prefer far right at this point. I'm sure there are way smarter people out there whose opinions matter more than mine anyway so the idea that I might convince myself I know the truth and should add my voice to a discussion seems dishonest. I don't even believe in modern democracy anymore so far right just seems more honest. It'll all be over soon anyway.

 

[Apathy79]

I get Chatgpt tasks to send me summaries of daily news in my town and my areas of interest with a focus on removing bias from the reporting where relevant. It actually does pretty well.

 

[yellowjester]

I read different headlines and observe people's reaction to it on social media and piece together what is happening in the world based on that. I never read the news articles themselves.

I have a very good bullshit radar so there is no need for me to fact check anything.